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Topic: Questions about Cosplay Chess 2013 (Read 2588 times)

Hey, I have participated in the Improv Cosplay chess at Sakuracon before, and I was wondering, how does the cosplay chess work at Kumoricon? Is there a scheduled choreographed one like at Sakuracon, or are they all improv-ed with volunteers? I would very much like to participate if possible!

Our Cosplay Chess is completely unscripted. Sign-ups should open this weekend (most likely Sunday night), and will stay open until August 24th. Teams are announced a few days later (so you all can start with the smack-talk). There is a mandatory pre-meet, where you meet the other pieces and you can brainstorm moves and such, but you don't know what will happen until the actual game.

Well, hopefully my Aizen submission will get me in there as a Villain, since I have some neat attack ideas, and if the cosplay chess team has a computer hooked up to a speaker or something like that, we could get some nice villainous music from the Bleach soundtrack going...

The music they do is completely random. They aren't able to know who is going to attack and can't find a song that perfectly fits quickly enough. So keep that in mind, that the music may not be what you want, but there isn't a way to make it so.

I'd say pretty much any cosplay should be doable. Video games of all sorts are quite welcome at Anime conventions and their corresponding events, since the vast majority of Anime fans are also gamers. At Sakuracon cosplay chess, I saw Deadpools, Solid Snakes (which the only thing Japanese about him is his creator), Dr. Seuss characters such as the Onceler, Jack Frosts, Marvel characters, etc. There was a huge diversity in character types.